Grandmother with cancer left out of pocket after granny flat business goes bust
A Melbourne grandmother with leukaemia is one of several customers thousands of dollars out of pocket after a granny flat business went bust.
Iris Spencer, from Pakenham, took years to save up for her home but she’s been told she probably won’t get her flat or her $28,000 back.
She purchased the home from the Hallum factory just before Express Homes went bust in May. A nearly complete home disappeared as the company went into liquidation.
Security cameras were not working on the day the home went missing.
The grandmother was planning on moving into the yard of her daughter Jess Walsh.
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There is no suggestion that the company’s owner personally swindled the family out of money, and he is yet to comment on the matter.
The Hallum factory is now abandoned and its former landlord, Andrew Chessells, said he’s had “a lot of unhappy people” show up for unfinished homes that had already been paid for.
“I’ve never been in a high paid job, but I had a bit of equity in the house, and some super,” a disgruntled Ms Spencer said.
“I was using this for me, for the first time.”
